About Abbotsford Criminal Lawyers

Abbotsford Criminal Lawyers represent clients who have been charged with a criminal offence under the Criminal Code of Canada, or with various Provincial offences.

Some of the offences that Abbotsford criminal lawyers deal with include:

Break & Enter

Domestic Assault, Sexual Assault

Drug Related Offences

Theft

Fraud

Impaired Driving

Internet Related Charges

Murder / Homicide / Manslaughter

Robbery

Weapons Offences

Young Offender cases

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Impaired Driving Defence Lawyers

Impaired Driving is a criminal offence under the Criminal Code of Canada, and most Criminal lawyers will take on cases that involve impaired driving charges. We have created an additional category for Impaired Driving lawyers since a great number of lawyers specialize in the area of Impaired Driving, and also due to the fact that most individuals who have been charged with an impaired driving offence would search for an Impaired Driving lawyer and not a criminal lawyer.

Bohun also admitted that her memory have been affected by drugs during the cross-examination conducted by Abbotsford defence lawyer Jack Harris.

Bohun told the court that when she had stayed in Bachman's home from aged 11 to 14, she had a sexual relationship with Bachman wherein he touched and groped her, although he never had an intercourse with her.

The sexual relationship stopped when she decided to ran away from Bachman's home in 2004.

She said she had relied on drugs in an effort to escape from the painful memories.

Although the verdict was a disappointment, Bohun said she believes she did the right thing by coming out with her story.

Lawyers argue for stay of proceedings in Surrey police's assault case

Posted Feb 19, 2013 on www.vancouversun.com

The lawyers for two Surrey policemen accused of using a Taser against a septuagenarian patient are arguing for a judicial stay of proceedings because it has taken the government 29 months to bring their clientsâ case to trial.

RCMP Const. Mitchell Spears and Transit Police Const. Ken Jansen have submitted no guilty pleas to the assault charges that have been laid down against them.

The two have allegedly assaulted without provocation Robert Keith Booker, 73, April 2010 at the Surrey Memorial Hospital.

Canada Criminal Defence Lawyer News

Man pleads guilty to dangerous driving, hit-and-run

Posted Feb 03, 2015 on www.edmontonjournal.com

Brandon James Hudson submitted a guilty plea to several counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm and hit-and-run in relation to an incident which happened in the afternoon of September 24 last year.

While high on drugs, Hudson had stolen his stepfather's sedan and drove through the streets inflicting injury to several people.

Hudson, however, could not remember anything that happened on that fateful day, according to Edmonton lawyer Anna Konye, who is defending him.

Hudson's atrocities did not stop when his very damaged vehicle refused to start, he tried to flee the police on foot and when he was finally detained, he attacked his cellmate.

The Crown prosecutor told the court that at the time of his arrest, Hudson was mumbling about people going after him and how he could not escape them.

A hearing for his sentencing has yet to be scheduled as Hudson has been ordered to go through a psychiatric exam.

Dad sentenced for child porn with daughter as victim

Posted Dec 04, 2014 on www.lfpress.com

A 47-year-old father was sentenced to a year and six months after pleading guilty to making child pornography with his 15-year-old daughter as his unknowing victim.

The father, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his daughter, had secretly set up a surveillance camera in his daughter's bedroom.

The daughter discovered what her father had done when she saw the videos on the laptop which their family uses.

Some of the videos were of her doing sexual acts with her boyfriend.

The father, who was defended by London criminal lawyer Jim Dean, told the court that he put up the surveillance camera in secret because he believed that his daughter was having an active sex life.

The judge, however, did not believe him.

Police who searched their home also found properties worth more than $10,000 which the father stole from work. This earned him another four-month jail term.

The father also received an additional month in jail for going against court orders such as visiting his home and having a camera phone.

Time served for man involved in teen's death

Posted Nov 20, 2014 on www.winnipegsun.com

Justin Parker could have saved himself from a lengthy jail stay if he had decided to talk to police from the start.

Parker submitted a guilty plea to assault with a weapon in the death of a teenage boy whom he and two other men caught stealing from parked cars.

The admission earned him a four-month jail sentence which was considered already served because Parker had spent a year and three months in custody before he was granted bail.

From the start, Parker had not talked with the police upon the advice of his previous lawyer.

In March of 2011, while watching a show on the television, Parker, Pierre Bessette and another man had looked out the window and saw two youngsters breaking into parked cars.

The three decided to confront the youngsters which resulted to the death of one of them after a stab to the heart.

While Parker had brought a can of bear spray, he did not know that Bessette was armed more dangerously after he told him not to bring anything.

Both Parker and Bessette were charged with second-degree murder but Parker was ordered to stand trial only for assault with a weapon after a preliminary hearing was held.

Winnipeg criminal defence lawyer Greg Brodsky, representing Parker, said the purpose of going out was to scare the youngsters and take back the stolen items, nothing else.

When the Crown appealed and Parker's charge was elevated to manslaughter, that was when he decided to talk to the police.

According to the Crown attorney, that was the moment Parker realized that he might be handed a lengthier jail stay for a killing that he did not plan nor wanted to happen.

Retired Halifax police officer cleared of sexually assaulting a woman

Posted Nov 18, 2014 on thechronicleherald.ca

Dennis Dale Kelsey, who has retired from police service in Halifax, has been cleared of the charge of sexual assault after the judge decided that the Crown was not able to provide evidence beyond reasonable doubt against him.

Kelsey has been accused of having sexual contact with a woman without her consent while he was off-duty.

The retired police officer had gone to the woman's apartment earlier in the day on police business. A surveillance camera recorded him returning late at night and leaving early dawn.

Kelsey had testified that the woman had consented to everything that happened between them.

The Crown attorney had pointed out that Kelsey's testimony was not credible because it was too clinical and exactly what is needed in proving consent considering that the accused is familiar with the issue in line with his work.

The judge agreed, however, the victim's testimony also had so many loopholes that he found it difficult to fully believe her claims that she had not given her consent such as when she admitted that she herself removed her blouse because she did not want Kelsey to rip it.

This allowed Halifax defence lawyer Luke Merrimen to drum in that what happened was consensual and not a crime.

One month jail stay for man who attacks girlfriend's cat

Posted Nov 12, 2014 on thechronicleherald.ca

Nathan Jonathan Cormier will be spending a month in jail after he submitted a guilty plea to charges related to animal cruelty.

Cormier was accused of brutally attacking the cat of his girlfriend, Amanda Shaw.

He claimed that the cat had bitten him and showed one of his fingers with a small scratch which the police said does not seem to be a bite mark.

He started with hitting the cat with the scratching post, then trying to scald it while Shaw was attempting to clean it in the bathroom.

Not satisfied with what he has done so far, Cormier grabbed the animal by its neck and back, attempted in breaking its neck, threw it on the floor before slamming the door of the bathroom on it.

Cormier only stopped and left when other people got into their apartment when Shaw started screaming.

The cat had suffered several injuries to the head but is expected to recover.

The Crown had asked for a three-month jail stay while Halifax criminal lawyer Kishan Persaud, defending for Cormier, only asked for a probation for his client citing that it was his first offence and that he is suffering from mental problems.

After his one-month jail stay, the judge also ordered Cormier to undergo a one-year probation.

He has also been ordered not to contact Shaw, and to undergo treatment for substance abuse and anger management.